population
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[edit] Etymology
From late Latin populatio "a people, multitude," as if a noun of action from classical Latin populus "people"
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɒpjuːleɪʃən/
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
[edit] Noun
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population (plural populations)
- (collective) The people living within a political or geographical boundary
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- The people living in a single place.
- The population of some smalltowns is numbered in under four digits
- (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area
- A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world
- The town’s population is only 243.
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
- "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
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[edit] Translations
all people living within a political or geographical boundary
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biology: collection of organisms
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number of residents in a given area
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[edit] French
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population f. (plural populations)